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Welcome to the website of the Restful Maths podcast. Everyone loves maths, but a lot of people don't know it yet. We lead busy and stressful lives. The aim of the Restful Maths podcast is to help you relax. In each episode I speak about different sets and sequences of numbers and then I read through them while you relax...

 

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Dec 20, 2018

The square numbers are generated by multiplying integers by themselves (aka “squaring”). Given that multiplying 2 numbers with the same sign always yields a positive product, it follows that square numbers are always positive, whether they are the result of squaring a negative or positive integer, so, for example,...



Nov 29, 2018

What are prime numbers, and how did they move from the backwaters of abstract mathematical analysis to being vital for the way we live in the computer age? These are a couple of the questions that I look at in this episode of Restful Maths before reading a few out...ok before reading about 500 of them...


Nov 4, 2018

In this episode I look at the Natural Numbers; also known as the counting numbers they form the countable infinite set of whole numbers beginning with one...or sometimes zero. I briefly discuss their origins and why they are so important before I tell you what some of them...ok quite a few of...


Nov 3, 2018

In this trailer I describe what the  point of the Restful Maths podcast is and what it will look like, to begin with at least. To many people mathematics is stressful. The idea of the Restful Maths podcast is that mathematics, and in particular number, can be an aid to a restful end of a stressful day.

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